What's New for Summer 2012?
USA Pro Cycling Challenge chooses Durango as Overall Start: It All starts Here! The race returns to Colorado from August 20-26, 2012 and Durango is the Overall Start on Monday, August 20. USA Pro Cycling Challenge features the best professional cyclists competing on a challenging course through some of America's most beautiful scenery. www.Durango2012.com

Durango Welcome Center 802 Main Avenue
Everything you need to know about the Durango area! The Durango Area Tourism Office, Fort Lewis College and City of Durango open the Welcome Center in the heart of Downtown Durango. www.Durango.org

Foremost western teacher of Buddhism speaks in DurangoAwakening the Buddha Within
Community Concert Hall, August 4
Lama Surya Das, known as the "Western Lama," will speak and lead a retreat.
970-946-0233

Live Music and Theatre
Music in the MountainsJuly 8 - 29
Over 30 concerts and events performed in venues set in spectacular mountain settings. www.musicinthemountains.com

Durango Arts Center Community Theater: Beehive, the '60s Musical802 East 2nd AvenueBeehive, the '60s Musical, features classic songs deeply influenced by social and political mores of the 1960s. www.durangoarts.org

Durango Melodrama at Henry Strater Theatre: Two Orphans699 Main Avenue
Two orphan girls make their way to Paris; one gets arrested, the other falls in love -- will they ever see each other again? DurangoMelodrama.com

More Summer Fun...The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has regular service to the historic mining town of Silverton. Relax in the natural mineral waters at Trimble Hot Springs. The Durango Discovery Museum and Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum will inspire and inform; our galleries and art museums unveil the beauty of western and contemporary art. Visit www.durango.org.